“There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.”
“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”
“The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”
“The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.”
“To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.”
“Don't beat yourself up over what you could have or should have done. The past is gone. Move on to the future.”